Sorry for the late reply, I have been smothered by my paying work the last few days..
Yes, "Ma object serialization" is a serialization framework developed and used independently of Magma. It is and can be used by other frameworks such as Maui and Ma client server without Magma present. However, I have not updated the stand-alone configuration for Ma object serialization in a while, I plan to do that for all "Ma" packages soonish.
The main point of Ma object serialization is that it provides a logical, rather than physical, serialization of any object graph. While this provides better safety and portability than SmartRefStream, the other benefit is the ability to traverse and visit each individual first-class "Buffer" object, an interrogate it as necessary. Obviously, this plays directly into the needs of Magma
The serialized representation of an object takes the form of an instance of "MaSerializedGraphBuffer". This
Regarding performance: Since Ma object serialization serializes fist-class logical buffers, and SmartRefStream is a physical serialization, SmartRefStream *should* be a lot faster. However, due to the poor performance of IdentityCollections, and Ma's use of Igors improved Identity-based collections, the Ma serialization can actually be a lot faster for large objects.
- Chris
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck marianopeck@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Chris. Is it possible to use the Ma object serialization outside Magma? I mean, I just need an object serializer (not magma). Can I use it? how ? do you have examples? which packages should I load?
Do you know the performance in compare to SmartRefStream for example ?
Thanks a lot in advance,
Mariano
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